A New Burial Suit Lets Mushrooms Eat Your Decomposing Body

Atlas Obscura has an article on a rather ... interesting new burial suit. The Infinity Burial Suit has been in production by Coeio for a few years, but is getting ready to debut to consumers in the next few months. The best way to sum up what it does is to tell you the other name for it: the Mushroom Burial Suit.

Urvija Banerji at Atlas Obscura has the full details, but here's the gist: the suit is threaded with spores of an engineered mushroom called the Infinity Mushroom. It's been genetically engineered to maximize decomposition and detoxification of human corpses. It's expected to retail in April or May of this year, and a pod-shaped version for pets will debut sometime after that.

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